Kira Lum (Lumpyplume)

“When midnight hushed the Earth, and lonely on the rooftops the night owls seemed to lament in melancholy notes, prolonged to a doleful cry, and then besides the riddling words of seers in ancient days, foreboding sayings made her thrill with fear.”
― Virgil (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)

“[I]f the wave practices meditation and realizes she is water, she can collapse and tumble with joy. She may die as a wave, but she will always be alive as water.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology

“And then the nights came on and the frosts took hold again, and blades of cold slid under doors and cut the knees off those who still knelt to say the rosary.”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“Relearn astonishment.”
― Elias Canetti